Alan Johnson

I feel bad for him. Not in the sense of accepting any of his behavior, but it seems like he wants to be a better person but is stuck.

I find extreme personalities like his fascinating. He reminds me of Jon Jones in a lot of ways, but in particular, the combination of unhinged conduct with intense relgiosity.

"Red Bull DOESN'T give you wings"

--Sickburn from one of my children

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:

The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

Got a $1720 hospital bill for my kid's nasal hemorrhage. It was a pretty scary amount of blood, but turned out to just be a bad nose bleed. Maybe made worse by how upset she was.

It's fucked up that there's no way of knowing how much it cost upfront.

Go Hoosiers!!

Plants crave electrolytes

I was going to tag @patrickwyman.bsky.social until I saw that it was in my feed *because* he reposted it 😂

The Hyatt Place I'm staying at has translucent bathroom doors, which is the dumbest idea. Impossible to use at night without making the room super bright for other people.

Some people can maintain levels of cognitive dissonance that are incomprehensible to me

Drag to refresh is one of the most irritating UI patterns. Especially when you lose state.

This is actually the perfect time for that conversation

Just FYI, I've heard many people with large profiles say that it is actually not helpful to be advised to just ignore the hate, because it's simply not possible to ignore it.

It seems to me that Mamdani has a Trumpian instinct for gaining attention. But substituting thoughtfulness, empathy, and hope for Trump's narcissism, sociopathy, and spite.

The Kombucha Girl meme captioned with "The warmth of collectivism" on both sides. On the left, the woman looks repulsed, and on the right, the same woman looks intrigued.

This me the moment he said the line and then after the perspective gained from 15 seconds of additional thought

Do you have any recommended reading on this?

WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Over 1200 survivors raped or abused, and you have rich and powerful men doing this - and this country did nothing.”

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Insightful thread

Evidently, you're built different, because a lot of people with plenty of wealth and clout can't seem to make the same call.

People will overlook so much wrongness to avoid making change.

The fact that X is still the go-to public square proves something sad about human nature.

The first story on this episode is wild, on the scientist George Price

(cw suicide)

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Just another day in the grift economy

I mean, I'd take Chappelle's new special over that. I'm not trying to have my soul stolen 😅

Drinking a Sapporo, thinking of my next door neighbor who passed a couple years ago. He loved a Sapporo. I miss that dude.

Neo-feudalism

Goddamn. He hit him like one of those punch machines at a sports bar.

Chael Sonnen looks helplessly upward at Anderson Silva, his mouth hanging open, in their UFC rematch. He his on his butt, backed against the cage, and Silva is approaching him to attack. Moments later, Silva will land a knee to Sonnen's body and finish him with punches.

Also reminded of this moment right before Chael Sonnen took a flying knee to his solar plexus in his rematch against Anderson Silva

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